Fastening means for bottles or similar things.



No. 788,158. PATENTBD APR. 25, 1905.

M. A. LAZARBFP.

FASTENING MEANS FOR BOTTLES OR SIMILAR THINGS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 6, 1904.

WITNESSES 1v 1v70 A TTORNE Y.

No. 788,1 5s.

Patented April 25, 1905.

MATHIAS A. LAZAREFF, OF NElV RATION OF THE DlSlRlC l OF YORK, N. Y.,GLASS J Alt AND BOTTLE COR'HANY,

OF NElV YORK, N.

COLUMBIA.

FASTENING MEANS FOR BOTTLES OR SIMILAR THINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0.

788,158, dated April 25, 1905.

Application filed May 6, 1904. Serial No. 206,627.

To r/l/ whom if many roux/Yarn..-

Be it known that l, Marinas A. IJAZAREFI, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented a new and lmproved Fastening Means forBottles or Similar Things, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of fastening deviceswhich is intended to be quickly fastened andunfastencd, which is adaptedtoconnect parts where quick disconnection is desirable, and is alsoadapted to effect the closure of vessels of various kinds.

My invention is particularlyintended as an improvement on the deviceshown in Letters Patentof the United States No. 737,638, dated September1, 1903, and No. 751,082), dated llebruary 2, 190%.

In my former inventionsjust referred to, the fastening means wasexterior of the neck of the bottle or similar vessel and on someaccounts is therefore objectionable.

The object of my present invention is to utilize the principlesdisclosed in my former inventions, but to improve in detail to the endthat the locking means may be on the inside of the article-as, forinstance, a bottle-neck to which a connection is to be made-so that theexterior of the vessel may be left entirely plain and smooth.

Obviously the fastening means can be applied to any device where aremovable part is to be attached to the hollow body portion as, forinstance, a jar-cap or a bottle-stopple.

lVith the above ends in view myinvention consists ofcertain features ofconstruction and combinations of parts, which will be hereininafterdescribed and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

igure 1 is a vertical section of the upper portion of a fruit-jar,showing my improvements attached. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan on the line2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation showing my inventionin the form of a bottle-stopple and bottle-neck.

a plan view of Fig. l to more clearly illustrate the linger-grips in thecap.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the jar may be of any usual form and is madein the main like an ordinary fruit-jar, and it has, preferably, acircumferential shoulder 11 near the ASSIGNOR TO THE ROYAL Y., A CORPO-top, on which the usual form of gasket 12 is placed, so as to be engagedby the dependent rim 13 of the bottle-cap 15, a space being left betweenthe middle or top portion of the cap and the flange or rim 13, so thatthe top edge lat of the bottle may cap, as the drawings clearly show.

The details just described I do not claim, and they are notnecessary,but are desirable, because the interior lock presently to be describedworks nicely in structure described and forces the rim 13 snugly againstthe gasket 12, so as. to make an air-tight joint.

The interior of the neck of the jar 10 or other vessel is provided withlugs 16, which extend slightly into the bottle-neck and are spacedapart, as the drawings show, these being preferably inclined slightly onthe under side like the lugs shown in my former applications abovereferred to.

Held snugly in the body of the cap 15 is a circumferential plate or ring17, which is preferably of metal, and 1 have found that aluminium worksbetter than anything else for this purpose, as the glass holds it doesnot corrode easily. To provideagainst the displacement of the ring,however, it is inserted in a groove of the cap while the latter is stillplastic, and the soft glass is then extend upward into the connectionwith the it snugly and pressed snugly against the ring while in a 5mold, and the ring is thus held secure. The ring or plate 17 has atintervals projecting lugs 18, and when these do not register with thelug 16 the bottle-cap may be easily inserted in or removed from the neckof the 9 bottle or jar 10. By placing the cap in position and thenturning it slightly, however, the

lugs 18 engage the lugs 16 and the cap is drawn snugly to its seat. Toprovide for the easy turning of the cap, 1 preferablyarrange Fig. lislii'igergrips 15 in the top. No novelty is claimed for thesefinger-grips and other things can be substituted for them.

It will be seen that the arrangement described is very simple, that thecap can be easily locked, and that the inside lugs 16 protrude so littlethat they do not interfere with the filling or emptying of the jar.

In Fig. 3 I have shown how my invention is applied to a bottle ofdifierent shape. Here the long neck has lugs 16, exactly as alreadydescribed, and the stopple 19 has a flange 13 adapted to fit on the topof the bottle-neck fiatwise, while the ring 17, with its lugs 18 is heldin the stopple portion 15", as the drawings show. This device isoperated exactly like the cap already described to fasten or unfastenthe stopple.

The modification will illustrate clearly the fact that my invention isnot limited to any particular form of device, but is adapted for use inconnection with any hollow vessel to which a cap, stopple, closure, orother part is to be detachably secured. It will also be observed thatthe lugs 16 may be produced on the inner member and the lugs 18 on theouter member,

.jecting lugs to engage the lugs of the hollow vessel.

2. The combination with a jar or bottle having inwardly-projecting lugsin its neck, of a cap or closure fitting into the bottle-neck and havinga flange to close against the top of the bottle-neck, the said caphaving a circumferential ring held fast therein and provided withprojecting lugs to engage the lugs of the bot-. tle-neck.

MATHIAS A. LAZAREFF. l/Vitnesses:

VVARREN B. HUTCHINSON, J. G. DUNBAR;

